52nd Street S.E. Widening Project Wins Award

The 52nd Street S.E. Road Widening Project received an Award of Excellence from the Alberta Chapter of the American Concrete Institute at an awards ceremony held in Kananaskis on May 3st.

The project won in the bridges category for work done on grade separation and road widening between 94 Avenue and 106 Avenue S.E. KCB was proud to be recognized as a member of the project team along with The City of Calgary, AECOM, Graham Construction Ltd, Lafarge, Burnco, RECo and ARMTEC.

Klohn Crippen Berger (KCB) undertook the geotechnical investigations, preliminary design, and detailed design of the deep underground utilities and provided tender and construction support for all three phases of the project. The project involved the widening of approximately 5 km of 52 Street SE (from Glenmore Trial to 106 Avenue SE and from 114 Avenue SE to 130 Avenue SE), upgrading connecting roads, and the construction of a new bridge over the Western Headworks (WH) Canal and the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway, for which the project won the ACI award. KCB was involved in the project since 2006 and provided the following services:

Geotechnical investigations for bridge and MSE wall foundation design and provision of geotechnical services throughout construction.

Environmental investigations and assessment.

Design of a stormwater management system for the local area, which included: hydrological and hydraulic modeling to meet a 1980 moratorium limit of discharge to the WH Canal; a new storage duct along 52 Street SE; the new 54 Street SE stormwater pond; reverse grading of a section of 2100 mm diameter sewer with fibre reinforced concrete; abandonment of the old outfall to the WH Canal; and reporting.